Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

As of October 2019 Professorial staff include:[1]

1. Zoe Barber, Professor of Materials Science
2. Mark Blamire, Professor of Device Materials
3. Serena Best, CBE, FREng, Professor of Materials Science
4. Harry Bhadeshia, FREng, FRS, Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy
5. Ruth Cameron, Professor of Materials Science
6. Manish Chhowalla, Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science
7. Bill Clegg, Professor of Materials Science
8. Judith Driscoll, FREng, Professor of Materials Science
9. Cate Ducati, Professor in Nanomaterials
10. James Elliott, Professor of Macromolecular Materials Science
11. Lindsay Greer, Professor of Materials Science
12. Vasant Kumar, Professor of Materials Chemistry
13. Neil Mathur, Professor of Materials Physics
14. Paul Midgley, FRS, Professor of Materials Science (Current Head of Department)
15. Rachel Oliver, Professor of Materials Science
16. Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science
17. Cathie Rae, Professor of Superalloys
18. Jason WA Robinson, Professor in Materials Physics

As of October 2019 Readers and Lecturers include:[1]

1. Rachel Evans, Reader in Materials Chemistry
2. Sohini Kar-Narayan, Reader in Device & Energy Materials
3. Howard Stone, Reader in Metallurgy
4. Louise Hirst, University Lecturer (jointly appointed with the Cavendish Laboratory)
5. Nick Jones, University Lecturer
6. Kevin Knowles, Senior University Lecturer
7. Emilie Ringe, University Lecturer (jointly appointed with the Department of Earth Sciences)

1. Professor R.S Hutton -1944
2. Professor Wesley Austin 1945-1958
3. Professor Sir Alan Cottrell FRS 1958-1966
4. Professor Sir Robert Honeycombe FREng FRS 1966-84
5. Professor Derek Hull FREng FRS 1984-1991
6. Professor Sir Colin Humphreys, CBE FREng FRS 1991-1996
7. Professor Alan Windle FRS 1996-2000
8. Professor Derek Fray FRS FREng 2000-2005
9. Professor Alan Lindsay Greer 2005-2013
10. Professor Mark Blamire 2013-2018
11. Professor Paul Midgley FRS 2018- (current)

Current research is organised into seven themes:[2]

1. Device materials
2. Electron microscopy
3. Materials chemistry
4. Medical & pharmaceutical materials
5. Structural materials
6. Clean energy & sustainability
7. Nuclear energy

Stair Case of Arup Tower, part of the former site of MSM, at the New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge.

Research is organised into the following groups.[3]

• Applied Superconductivity & Cryoscience Group
• Ceramics and Inorganic Materials Group
• Composites & Coatings Group
• Device Materials Group
• Electron Microscopy Group
• Functional Photoactive Materials Group
• The Gordon Laboratory
• Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride
• Hybrid Materials Group
• Inorganic Microstructures Group
• Macromolecular Materials Laboratory
• Materials Chemistry Group
• Materials Theory Group
• Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials
• Microstructural Kinetics Group
• Phase Transformations and Complex Properties Group
• Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Advanced Materials

• 2015 - Paragraf Ltd - novel deposition of graphene onto semiconductors
• 2010 - CamGaN (now part of Plessey) - GaN on Silicon LED technology (low cost, low energy lighting)
• 2007 - Inotec AMD - innovative topical oxygen therapy for wound healing
• 2004 - Q-flo (merged with Plasan, CNT fibres now commercialised by Tortech) - ultra-long CNT fibres
• 2004 - Camfridge - energy-efficient and gas-free magnetic cooling
• 2001 - Metalysis - commercialisation of the FFC Cambridge Process. Reduction of metal oxides and ores into pure metals and alloys
• 1989 - CMD Ltd (became part of Accelerys, now part of Biovia Dassault Systems) - X-ray modelling software

Notable alumni and former staff include:

• Alan Cottrell, FRS,[4]
• Robert W. Cahn FRS,[5]
• Robert Honeycombe[6]
• Derek Fray FRS FREng
• Sir Colin Humphreys, CBE FREng FRS
• Alan Windle FRS
• Charles Heycock FRS
• Sir Graeme Davies FREng
• William Bonfield CBE FRS FREng
• Michael F. Ashby CBE FRS FREng
• Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng